1921 Duluth & St Louis County MN, Van Brunt.pdf - Garon.us

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 851
city he worked a short time at his trade, as did he later at Wallace, Idaho.
He then purchased a restaurant at Gem, Idaho, as well as a barber shop,
and he conducted both of these establishments about two years. Thereafter
he visited various cities of the northwest, and he then returned to
Minnesota, where from 1904 to 1905 he was employed at his trade in the
city of Duluth. During the following period of about eighteen months he
conducted a barber shop of his own at Eveleth, St. Louis County, and he
then removed to the new and booming town of Aurora, this county, where
he conducted a barber shop from 1907 until 1909, in which latter year he
was appointed chief of the police department of the vigorous little city.
In January. 1913, he resigned this position to accept that of range chief
deputy sheriff, with headquarters at Virginia, and on the 1st of May, 1918,
was appointed chief of the Virginia police department, in which office his
administration has been marked by discrimination, vigor and progressive
policies, with the result that his regime has given unqualified satisfaction.
He was chairman of the local Draft Board at the time when the nation
called for its young meii for service in the World war, and he is a valued
and popular member of the executive board of the local organization of
the Boy Scouts, as well as that of the Boys' W^elfare League. In politics
Chief \\^itte is aligned in the ranks of the Republican party, and he is
affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights
of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In this official
capacity Chief \\'itte holds that his duty is not merely to bring offenders
to justice but to further policies for the prevention of malefactions, to
inculcate high American standards in the youth of the country, and to provide
proper channels for the exercise of the exuberant spirits of boys and
youth, so that they may be deflected from the courses that lead to disrule
and eventual crime. His interest in the youth of his jurisdiction is manifested
in kindly and effective service and action, and in his private and offi-
cial work along this line he has achieved splendid results.
In 1909 was recorded the marriage of Mr. Witte to Miss Ada Jenkins,
of Virginia, Minnesota, and she is the popular chatelaine of their pleasant
home, which is known for its gracious hospitality. They have no children.
Frank E. Bukrell is a pioneer Duluth business man, long identified
with the sheet metal trades and industry and has handled an important
share of the volume of business done in that line in Duluth and vicinity
during the past thirty years or more.
He was born in Pennsylvania Ajjril 22, 1861. His father, Louis
Burrell, a native of the same state, was a shoemaker and tanner, and on
leaving Pennsylvania went to Illinois, later followed his trade and business
in Kansas, and finally moved to Arkansas, where he died. Of four
children three are living, Frank E. being the second in age. .
Frank E. Burrell ac(|uire(l his early education in the public schools of
Pennsylvania and Illinois, and some of his early experiences were on his
father's farm. He began learning the sheet metal trade at the age of
seventeen in Kansas, and returning to his old Illinois home in I'Veeport,
was a sheet metal worker two years, l-'rom there he. came to Duluth,
and his first employment in this city was with .Alexander Crawford. Later ^
he worked with the II. W. Pearson Company and later with the Hanchett
& Shelden Company until 1888, in which year he formed a partnership
with K. E. Little under the firm name of Burrell & Little. They were in
business together until 1892, following which the firm of Burrell &
Harmon contiiuied business for eighteen years, and since then Mr. Burrell
has conducted his enterprise alone. Me has a well appointed shop, all the
facilities for his business, and has developed an expert organization